Miss. flag issue may resurface in sessionIt's been more than three years since voters rejected replacing the 1894 flag with its controversial Southern Cross. The National Collegiate Athletic Association forbids planned tournaments in Mississippi and South Carolina because of the Southern Cross. James Davis, a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans who lives in Starkville, said, "I'd certainly be against changing the flag. At the root of this problem is ignorance about what the war was all about. ...

Many casual students of the Civil War view Ulysses S. Grant as a butcher with a thirst for alcohol. Even some of his military contemporaries faulted him for his theory of warfare, always eager to match casualties with the undermanned Confederacy.

Kennedy
had plans to invade Alabama!MONTGOMERY
-- In the weeks before Gov. George Wallace's attempt to block enrollment of two
black students at the University of Alabama, the Kennedy administration was poised
to send more than 20,000 troops into Alabama if resistance to integration had
become more violent, according to declassified documents and interviews with former
military and civilian sources. - (Tyrone
N. Butts)Well I suppose 'our' current
foreign wars are preferable to civil wars... but this is just one more example
of the abuse of power by the FEDeral regime - imposing the will of the 'Commander
in Chief' over the democratic majority of sovereign states, whether foreign or
'domestic'. That is why the Founding Fathers had the foresight to require that
only the people's Congress
have the only power to declare war. - ed.

U.S.
Civil War Site Dedicated in FranceCHERBOURG, France -- American cannon
blasts bellowed in the English Channel 140 years ago, and bloodied bodies lined
the deck of a sinking Confederate ship. Teary onlookers watched in horror from
the Normandy coast. The Confederate State Ship Alabama today lies where it sank
under 198 feet of swirling currents about 7 nautical miles off the French town
of Cherbourg.

"I
was not always proud of being a Cajun"
- (extract from down the page) "...I then combed Andrew B. Booths
three-volume Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate
Commands... A total of 116 companies and batteries, 10 battalions, and 30 regiments,
including a cavalry battalion from Texas, have made the list of significantly
Cajun units. The inclusion on this list of a regiment of free blacks from New
Orleans, the 1st Native Guards, attests to the racial as well as cultural diversity
of the Cajuns of Louisiana..."

Flag
lynching in poor taste "Read your article
on the lynching of the Confederate flag. I cant help but wonder what the
reaction would be if the Sons of the Confederacy would erect a gallows and hang,
in effigy, a black person. Would the college permit that on their campus? I think
not."

The
Welsh influence on American life New BBC Wales three-part series Star
Spangled Dragon traces the Welsh descendants of some of America's key players.
Among them is Thomas Jefferson, whose father came from the foothills of
Snowdonia. During the American Civil War, both sides were led by men with Welsh
forefathers - the Union by Abraham Lincoln and the Confederacy by Jefferson
Davis.

Southern
Cookbook To Raise Funds For MonumentThose recipes and more Southern
favorites - corn bread, fried green tomatoes, catfish stew and hush puppies -
are in a cookbook from the United Daughters of the Confederacy Plant City
chapter. Proceeds from sales of ``Suppertime in the Old South Generations of Recipes''
will help pay for a monument to honor an often forgotten chapter in Confederate
history: the Cow Cavalry. In 1863, during the Civil War, troops were recruited
in Florida to drive cattle northward to feed the starving armies of Confederate
Gen. Robert E. Lee.

On
top of that we were occupied by the Federal Army under the Radical Republicans.
That occupation lasted twelve years. Thousands of Yankee carpetbaggers came South
with a license to steal and Federal bayonets and black votes to work with.

"All
is lost!"

Seeing that all was lost for
the South, thousands of Southern scalawags joined the majority black vote and
the Federal occupation troops and the carpetbaggers.

"All
is lost!"

Not only that, but we faced
the majority of the ruling Yankee vote that was against us.

You
see, the Yankees had their Greatest Generation, too. Millions of Yankees had Saved
the Union just as the Greatest Generation Saved the World. They and their families
hated us.

"All is lost!"

Looking
at that situation, I would not see any hope either. But my grandfather, who later
became a Methodist circuit riding preacher, joined the Redshirts anyway. The Redshirts
took on the hopeless task of taking South Carolina back.

Not
only did we take it back, but South Carolina became a bastion of white supremacy.

Ref: Hampton
and His Redshirts: South Carolina's Deliverance in 1876The
"carpetbagger" government that ruled South Carolina from 1868 until
it was overthrown in 1876 caused more destruction than the four years of the War
Between the States. Judging by the record which these corrupt politicians left,
continuance of their rule would have resulted in the irretrievable annihilation
of the fruits of two centuries of labor, ingenuity, and courage. This book is
a fascinating chronicle of how the people of South Carolina, led by former Confederate
General Wade Hampton and his famous Redshirts, rose up to free themselves from
the intolerable and dangerous conditions of the Reconstruction period.

As a son of the South I came across your web site and
really liked it.I wanted to bring up something that has been well received
by those whom I have shared this.

I believe with all my heart the Civil
War was fought not about slavery but about the rights of a State to say what its
citizens can and cannot do. A war to tell Washington that they way we live in
the South is the way we want to live and no Yankee who has no idea of what life
is here should come and tell us how to live. And so I ask our friends who think
the war was fought for slavery this question...

Was the war of the states
about States Rights or was it to free the slaves?

If they tell a revision
of the truth saying the politically correct lie that it was to free the slaves
then I ask them for reparations for all the white soldiers who died to free the
blacks. And then there is silence. You can't have it both ways, either it was
States Rights or it was for freedom from slavery. Why is there no movement to
sue the NAACP for reparations over the thousands of white soldiers in the North
who were supposed to have died to free the slaves? Just a thought.

Southern
pride rallies 'round flag Members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans display the old Georgia flag
in front of the gold-domed state Capitol in Atlanta during an April 1 protest
march.

Letter
to Editor from reader"The
Confederate monument at the courthouse in Pender County, Burgaw, NC stands a spectacular
monument to our Confederate heroes. Near the base on one side is the carved likeness
of Gen. Dorsey
Pender. Some low life has carved a swastika in the center of his forehead
and stained his face with something the color of excrement. It appears to be permanent
damage. Oh, Caucasian what now for thee is left?"

Forgotten
Ark. Civil War Graves UncoveredHELENA, Ark. -- For 138 years, a shallow,
unmarked trench held the bodies of six Confederate soldiers cut down in one of
the more futile battles of the Civil War. Then, a road building project cut through
the ground above them.

Last
Living Widow of Civil War Vet AilingENTERPRISE, Ala. -- The last known
living widow of a Civil War veteran suffered a heart attack and is unable to talk,
her caretaker said Thursday. Alberta Martin, 97, has been in Enterprise
Medical Center since suffering the heart attack May 7. She can open her eyes but
can't talk, said the caretaker, Ken Chancey.

Judge
Dismisses Suit by BBQ Sauce Maker Maurice Bessinger CHARLESTON, S.C.
-- A judge threw out a lawsuit by an outspoken Confederate flag supporter who
sued four grocery store chains that stopped carrying his barbecue sauce because
of his views. In last week's ruling, Circuit Judge William Keesley said Maurice
Bessinger failed to show the stores violated South Carolina's unfair trade
practices act.

Virginia
won't let the Old Confederacy die - comments a Negro
commentator..."Surrender Hell!" is still the battle cry
in most parts. The Sons of Confederate Veterans is campaigning to officially
establish April as Confederate History and Heritage Month in all of Virginia.
So far, the old Rebs are doing pretty well. At last count, 16 county, city and
town governments, mostly in the southern regions, have approved the resolution.

Unreconstructed
RebelOh,
I'm a good old Rebel,Now
that's just what I am;For
this "fair land of Freedom"I
do not care a damn.I'm
glad I fit against it-I
only wish we'd won.And
I don't want no pardonFor
anything I've done.

Flags of the Confederacy
The Great Seal of the Confederacy, or "Deo Vindice" seal was smuggled
through the Union blockade, along with its pressing equipment, during the war.
It proudly displays the Confederate motto of Deo Vindice, which is Latin for "God
will Vindicate." In keeping with the Southerners belief that their struggle
was continuing the beliefs of America's founding fathers, the seal displays a
mounted General George Washington in the center of the seal. Deo
Vindice links: DV1 | DV2